Another plasma component...

Yeah my shield I use is the standard shield that I have lathed off the nibs on the end. The shield sits about .01+ below the nozzle. I was using it with fine cut and with the fine cut shield but the touch off was damaging the nozzle so switched back to standard cut. I think the nozzle part is .625 diameter and sticks down about a 1/4”. I always hang the edge of the sheet over the slat edge.

That should do just fine, use the lower part for sensing as it looks not to be tapered, that way you get consistent results.

rodw wrote:

phillc54 wrote: Phill, if you come back to this, could you make sure there is something that can disable this parsing? Somehow, it does not feel right to build features that modify the Gcode as a user might not want to enable this type of behaviour.

Yes Rod I sure will. The default will be disabled. It is only for those of us that don't have that feature available in a post processor

Hi
thanks for your help.
Attached is the last version of the component I'm Using to communicate with the Hyperterm 85 plasma
please feel free to use, modify and distribute it.

Also let me know if you have any doubt about the code, or how I use it

thanks.

JTknives

I have a setup similar to Rod's and find it works very nice. I can use it to square the work piece to the machine motion and set the work piece zero. My cross hairs intersect under the nozzle of my torch. I seem to remember using two $5 laser line generators from ebay. I am sure there is a photo of my setup someplace in this forum topic.

Pedro

Thank you for sharing.

John

grijalvap wrote: Hi
thanks for your help.
Attached is the last version of the component I'm Using to communicate with the Hyperterm 85 plasma
please feel free to use, modify and distribute it.

Also let me know if you have any doubt about the code, or how I use it

thanks.

Phill, it would be cool to include this in your distro so it becomes part of Linuxcnc. I'm not sure how you go about writing man pages for python user space components.